Kanye West and Jay-Z have worked on hosts of records together (Picture: Getty)

Jay-Z has revealed how he ended up in a four-day argument with Kanye West over his new album Magna Carta Holy Grail, with West wanting several tracks to appear on their collaborative LP Watch The Throne.

Talking to BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Jay-Z explained how the disagreement began in 2011, concerning the tracks Holy Grail and Oceans.

‘We had this whole plan when me and Kanye did [the] Watch The Throne album that we would go right into our solos after that,’ Jay-Z said. ‘Soon as I thought we had wrapped up Watch The Throne, I made two records – I had Holy Grail and Oceans.’

‘[There were] no lyrics on Holy Grail and I recorded Oceans and I played those records for Kanye. And he was like, ‘No those have to go on Watch The Throne, so we spent four days arguing about those records and I was explaining to him why it wasn’t right for this project and I had a whole idea for making this album called Magna Carta… Holy Grail [part of] the name came after.’

Jay-Z insisted that the disagreement was entirely friendly however, describing it as ‘four days, four days literally arguing… not like fighting. Well, there was some pushing at one point but not between us, just everyone else got a little excited.’